Fichte and Korn: Some Messages for Free Spirits

María Paz Lamas

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Pages:: 257–272

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004532984_016

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The text deals with Alejandro Korn’s reception of Fichte, based on passages found in a text entitled Hegel, on the first century of his death [Hegel, en el primer centenario de su muerte] (1931) and in one of his main writings, Creative Freedom [La libertad creadora] (1922). Korn’s reception of Fichte could be characterized as a critical reception, since he accuses the Science of Knowledge of solipsism and proposes different solutions to this problem. First, we will shed light on Korn’s system, taking into account its differences with the Science of Knowledge. Secondly, we will show that, despite his criticisms, it is possible to find a link between both systems. Indeed, Korn states not only that philosophical activity must be transformative, but also that the principle upon which subjective activity is based is that of wanting or desire. Therefore, I argue that based on a similar reading of Kant, both thinkers propose that only two systems are possible: the system of freedom or Dogmatism. We shall see how Korn comes close to the way in which the First Introduction to the Science of Knowledge presents the two possible systems, as well as in the details of his arguments for and against them. This similarity is nothing less than the way in which both Fichte and Korn vindicate the spirit of freedom, of which Kant’s work is the messenger.

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Fichte in the Americas

Series: Fichte-Studien, Supplementa, Volume: 30

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004532984

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 23 May 2023

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- Philosophy
  - German Idealism

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